Part II of the analysis, including the impact of the decision on the professional translation industry, can be found here.
June 01, 2011
Google shuts down its translation API
Asia Online CEO Dion Wiggins gives an excellent informed analysis of Google's decision to shut down its translation API and improve its control over content quality. He says Google in reality has been "polluting its own drinking water by crawling and processing local language web content that has been published without any human proof reading after being translated using the Google Translate API."
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- I'm a British national with close ties to France and a fascination with America. Working as a translator and editor in Paris, I developed a specialisation in corporate and marketing communications for the defence, aerospace and high-tech industries. For ten years I have managed E-Files, Inc., an international network of business and technical communicators who share my background in multilingual marketing and corporate communications. We believe that teamwork between specialised translators and editors, marketing professionals and subject matter experts is the key to developing compelling multilingual content for print, web and multimedia. Corporate responsibility reporting has been my particular area of focus for several years, with clients in both the defence sector and the regulated lottery and gaming industry.
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